Jazz’s Best-Kept Secret

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Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Fort Worth, New Orleans, and probably many other cities—I’m not familiar with all the details.

What did they all have in common when jazz was in its fullest flower?

Incredibly well-developed music education programs for children, supported locally and guided by exceptional local musicians who spared no effort.

In this interview, conducted by Jordan Hirsh of ACloserWalk.com, we take out the microscope and look at how this worked in one city: New Orleans.

“Chord Changes on the Chalkboard”

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– Ken McCarthy
Jazz on the Tube

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Death, Resurrection, and the Spirit of New Orleans: Jazz on the Tube Conversations

Despite the catastrophe caused by the 2005 failure of the New Orleans levee system, the biggest engineering failure in U.S. history, New Orleans was re-inhabited, rebuilt, and re-ignited with the spirit that makes it one of the world’s greatest cultural gems.

This book tells the story of how it happened with a special focus on the city’s musicians. They were among the first to return to the devastated city. The spirit they brought with them was the key to putting New Orleans back on its feet, and even dancing again – against all odds.

Author Interviews

Title: Up Jumped the Devil: The Real Life of Robert Johnson
Author: Bruce Conforth
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Title: Universal Tonality: The Life
and Music of
William Parker
Author: Cisco Bradley
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Title: Jazz from Detroit
Author: Mark Stryker
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Title: Chord Changes on the Chalkboard
Author: Al Kennedy
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Title: Message to
Our Folks
Author: Paul Steinbeck
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Title: Lester Leaps In: The Life and Times of Lester Pres Young
Author: Douglas H. Daniels
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Title: Flavor and Soul
Author: John Gennari
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Title: Creating the Jazz Solo: Louis Armstrong and Barbershop Harmony
Author: Vic Hobson
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Title: Harlem of the West – The San Francisco Fillmore
Jazz Era
Author: Elizabeth Pepin, Lewis Watts
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Title: Bop Apocalypse: Jazz, Race, the Beats, and Drugs
Author: Martin Torgoff
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Title: Dangerous Rhythms:
Jazz and the Underworld
Author: T. J. English
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Title: Thick Lights, Loud Smoke and Dim, Dim Music: The Honky-Tonk Badlands of Texas
Author: Michael H. Price
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Title: Life Through The
Eyes Of A Jazz Journalist:
My Jazz Memoirs
Author: Scott Yanow
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Title: Texan Jazz
Author: Dave Oliphant
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Title: Jack Sullivan: New Orleans Remix
Author: Jack Sullivan
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Title: The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square
Author: Ned Sublette
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Title: The Boston Jazz Chronicles
Author: Richard Vacca
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Title: Jazz Superhero: Billie Holiday ‘
Lady Day’
Author: Eve Zanni
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Title: From Birdland to Broadway: Scenes from a Jazz Life
Author: Bill Crow
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Title: Music, Math, and
Mind: The Physics and Neuroscience of Music
Author: Professor David Sulzer
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Title: St. Louis Jazz:
A History
Author: Dennis C. Owsley
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Title: Smoketown
Author: Mark Whitaker
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Title: Music and Life
Author: Mike Vaccaro
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Title: Highway 61 Revisited
Author: Gene Santoro
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Title: Myself When I Am Real
Author: Gene Santoro
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Title: Stir It Up
Author: Gene Santoro
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Title: Dancing in Your Head
Author: Gene Santoro
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Title: Saxophone Colossus
Author: Aidan Levy
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Title: Linthead Stomp
Author: Patrick Huber
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Title: Everybody’s Doin’ It
Author: Dale Cockrell
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